J UST as the artisans, small manufacturers, and small businessmen
were exercised by the collectivization movement, so too were the
peasant owners, tenant farmers, and sharecroppers. While it is true
that rural collectivization was applied at the outset mainly to large
estates on which landless peasants had worked as day labourers before
the revolution -- a form of cultivation they spontaneously adopted --
it is no less true that it endangered the individual cultivator, who
apprehended in its rapid growth a mortal danger to himself;1 for not

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